Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3441D1337BB8 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 04:51:15 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 46370-04 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:51:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from out.mail.amis.hr (out2.mail.amis.hr [188.129.0.5]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E8B1337B2F for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 04:51:07 -0400 (AST) Received: from out.fsec.sm.srv.amis.hr (out.fsec.sm.srv.amis.hr [192.168.106.22]) by out.mail.amis.hr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8DE2018D; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 09:51:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from pps.filterd (out [127.0.0.1]) by out.fsec.sm.srv.amis.hr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with SMTP id oB28ll9V024103; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 09:51:06 +0100 Received: from smtp.amis.hr (smtp.sm.srv.amis.hr [192.168.106.39]) by out.fsec.sm.srv.amis.hr with ESMTP id swn6vrrbc-1; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:51:06 +0100 A-Original-Client-UID: 188.129.75.173 splivalo Received: from [192.168.10.1] (cpe-188-129-75-173.dynamic.amis.hr [188.129.75.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: splivalo) by smtp.amis.hr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9302B391; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 09:51:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4CF75DF9.1030301@megafon.hr> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:51:05 +0100 From: Mario Splivalo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre C CC: Mladen Gogala , Kevin Grittner , "jd@commandprompt.com" , "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: SELECT INTO large FKyed table is slow References: <4CF24103.8030209@megafon.hr> <1291168052.20631.1963.camel@jd-desktop> <4CF5FF0A.9040605@megafon.hr> <4CF678FC.9050003@vmsinfo.com> <4CF67F2A.4070703@megafon.hr> <4CF682A7.4030109@vmsinfo.com> <4CF63073020000250003802E@gw.wicourts.gov> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15, 1.0.148, 0.0.0000 definitions=2010-12-02_04:2010-12-02, 2010-12-02, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1010190000 definitions=main-1012020006 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201012/21 X-Sequence-Number: 41473 On 12/01/2010 10:43 PM, Pierre C wrote: > On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:24:35 +0100, Kevin Grittner > wrote: > >> Mladen Gogala wrote: >> >>> There is a operating system which comes with a very decent extent >>> based file system and a defragmentation tool, included in the OS. >>> The file system is called "NTFS" >> Been there, done that. Not only was performance quite poor compared >> to Linux, but reliability and staff time to manage things suffered >> in comparison to Linux. > > Please don't start with NTFS. It is the worst excuse for a filesystem > I've ever seen. It is OT, but, could you please shead just some light on that? Part of my next project is to test performance of pg9 on both windows and linux systems so I'd appreciate any data/info you both may have. Mario